Electronic communication from parliament was cut for several hours ahead of President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation speech on 12 February 2014.
A signal scrambler, said to belong to the military, was found in the press gallery at the National Assembly.

South Africa’s cases of rheumatic heart disease are 25 times the United Nations’ World Health Organisation (WHO) rate.
According to the WHO, a country should only have one case per 100 000 of the population per year of the disease.

The South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) says that South African workers no longer trust trade unions.
In its latest survey, SAIRR’s Boitumelo Setlhatswe is of the view that the trade unions lose control of the workshop floor.

The Constitutional Court will hear an application by a non-governmental organisation seeking to determine whether Parliament has failed in its constitutional obligation to get political parties to disclose the source of their private funding.

Amnesty International says that there is an urgent need for the African Union (AU) to take more concrete steps to effectively address the massive human rights violations resulting from the many conflicts taking place in several parts of the continent.

As rolling blackouts leave many South Africans in the dark, Greenpeace Africa says the government is not fast-tracking investments in renewable energy, but is instead pushing forward with unsustainable, unaffordable plans for nuclear expansion which would deliver too little, too late, and at far